Business
- Sir John Bond, former chairman of HSBC and current chairman of Vodafone
- Gerald Corbett, businessman
- Andrew Craissati, former Chairman The Virgin Group (Asia Pacific)
- Michael Marriott head of the British stock exchange
- Tim Waterstone (born 1939), founder of Waterstones bookshops
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“I’m afraid, Mr. Goldwyn, that we shall not ever be able to do business together. You see, you’re an artist, and care only about art, while I’m only a tradesman and care only about money.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It is the business of the critic, as of the portrait painter, to synthesize a million glances at his subject that will tell the onlooker at one glance the truth about him, as ultimate as he can get it.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)